The U.S. government is expected to issue some $250 billion in IT contracts during FY2006, according to a new report.

An arbitrator has ruled that Metrologic Instruments must pay $12 million to settle a license dispute with its rival bar-code reading company, Symbol Technologies.

Workers at Michigan-based Farmer Jack grocery stores have rejected a contract their union said was necessary to allow the chain to be acquired and avoid being shut down.

The United Steelworkers, who narrowly lost a similar vote on a contract recommended by union leadership, have reconsidered a strike at a West Virginia mill and will put the contract up for a second vote, as the state's governor has requested.

Boeing’s latest offer to its machinists, meanwhile, seems to have crashed and burned on takeoff.